Hi Emmanuel,
On Nov 29, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:
Citando James Berry :
I just checked in some code (r31491:31492) that supplies and
installs spec
files for the /etc/paths.d and /etc/manpaths.d directories if they
are
present, as they are on Leopard.
I thought macports was supposed not to mess with anything outside
/opt/local. (apart from /Application/Macports and
/Library/LaunchDaemons and a few others but aiming to reduce them
whenever possible). Modifying things in the user's home directory is
acceptable though.
I general, we don't do stuff outside of /opt/local, though we do also
install into /Library/Tcl, if memory serves, and also /Library/
LaunchDaemons, for instance. We try to be as minimal as possible, and
I think this fits into that category. And it seems to be, warts and
all, the Leopard "way" to do things.
Your question/point , however, is a completely valid one, which we'd
love feedback on. There's something very nice and clean about the
change I made (we just throw some files into a directory and don't
worry about editing the ~/.profile, which has its own share of
problems and snafus for less experienced users).
I think it's a question for the group in general: which is the best
approach? The range of choices we have is basically to pick from the
following menu:
- Install a file into /etc/manpaths.d/
- Install a file into /etc/paths.d/
- Munge ~/.profile to munge MANPATH
- Munge ~/.profile to munge PATH
Note that for man to work on Leopard, we have to do either 1 or 3, at
least, as Leopard now sets MANPATH, which means that the auto path
stuff for man doesn't work.
Note that just changing ~/.profile means that anybody who already has
~/.bash_profile, for instance, doesn't get the fix (though this could
be improved with better selection based on what profiles are available
and what SHELL is.
Feedback welcome. Anybody?
James
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